Supreme Court hears major climate liability case In this week’s edition of Economy and Society: Ballotpedia · Oct 7
Boasberg's Trump Contempt Probe Returns: Appeals Court Weighs Trump Administration's Deportation Flight Fight Trump faces a renewed legal showdown as an appeals court weighs whether Judge Boasberg can revive his contempt probe into officials over disputed Venezuela deportation flights. International Business Times UK · Oct 5
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Let Federal Prisons Taper Hormone Therapy for Transgender Inmates While Lawsuit Continues The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to let federal prisons end hormone therapy for transgender inmates while a class action continues. Medical Daily · Oct 1
May President Trump Exclude CNN from Air Force One? Very Likely Yes After being blocked in his attempt to keep CNN out of the White House altogether (including the main press briefing… The post May President Trump Exclude CNN from Air Force One? Very Likely Yes appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 26
Pentagon Can Keep Anthropic Out Of Its AI Supply Chain, Appeals Court Rules As It Rejects Claude Maker's Challenge The decision leaves a separate California ruling intact that struck down broader actions against the AI company under a different law. International Business Times · Sep 25
A Trump Appointee Blocks the President's Banishment of Disfavored News Outlets U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly is skeptical of the belated "national security" rationale for banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House. Reason · Sep 24
TRO Issued Ordering Reinstatement of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico White House Access The court's rationale is that revoking reporters' passes violated the Due Process Clause, given D.C. Circuit precedent on the subject; the court didn't reach the outlets' First Amendment arguments. Reason · Sep 24
After Banishing Journalists for Writing 'Purposely Negative' Stories, Trump Invokes 'National Security' The president hopes that post-hoc rationalization will override due process and freedom of the press. Reason · Sep 23
President Trump's Legal Argument in Support of Excluding CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House Here's an excerpt from the opposition to plaintiffs' temporary restraining order motion (for my view on why the plaintiffs should… The post President Trump's Legal Argument in Support of Excluding CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House appeared first on Reason Magazine. Reason · Sep 23
3 Leading News Outlets Say Their Sudden Banishment From the White House Is Unconstitutional In a federal lawsuit, CNN, MS NOW, and Politico argue that Trump's bans violate due process and freedom of the press. Reason · Sep 22
D.C. Circuit Rejects Limits on Capitol Steps Demonstrations Regulations limiting demonstrations on the Eastern Steps to those sponsored by members of Congress are unreasonable. Reason · Sep 22
What ICE's Highway Crackdown Means for the 200,000 Truckers Who Could Lose Their CDLs ICE is stopping truckers at weigh stations nationwide as a court weighs a rule that could cost 200,000 immigrant drivers their CDL. Key facts inside. Latin Times · Sep 22
Repressed! Trump bans CNN, MSNow, Politico from Oval Office The TOI correspondent from Washington: MAGA boss Donald Trump has the sort of relationship with the US media that therapists may describe as “complicated”: he can't live with them, can’t live without them, can't stop talking about them, and gets mad whenever they say something unflattering. The Times of India · Sep 19
Trump Wanted His Name on the Kennedy Center. A Judge Said No — So the Board Shut It Down Instead Kennedy Center trustees warn of "certain fiscal collapse" and weigh closing the building or adding Trump's name to the facade, as a $23M deficit looms. Latin Times · Sep 16
Reason · Sep 11 Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Backup groomsmen, weak sauce, and internment camps.
Reason · Sep 11 DC Circuit Rejects Energy Department's Claim of "Emergency" Authority to Order Coal Plant to Remain Open A potentially significant rebuke of one of the more controversial and unusual elements of the Trump Administration's energy policy.
Reason · Sep 4 Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Fancy timepieces, traitors, and lengthy footnotes.
Reason · Sep 2 Trump's White House Ballroom Is a Monument to His Lawlessness By unilaterally razing and replacing the East Wing, the president again shows his disregard for the rule of law and the separation of powers.
The Economic Times · Sep 1 Supreme Court lets Trump's White House ballroom construction continue The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue White House ballroom construction. This ruling blocks a lower court order halting above-ground development. A historic preservation group sued to stop the project last year. The court cited national security and legal standing for its decision.
Reason · Aug 31 Strictly Ballroom: Justice Kavanaugh Defeats Chief Justice Roberts The Court rejects the D.C. Circuit's erroneous "aesthetic injury" standing precedents and the Chief can only wax about Churchill.
Tom’s Hardware · Aug 18 DJI scores a win in fight against US ban, appeals court orders fresh review of firm's 'Chinese military company' designation — drone maker will stay on Pentagon list while a judge examines classified evidence for the first time The DC Circuit reversed one of four findings, ruling that a lower court upheld a fully redacted justification without reading the classified record behind it.
Reason · Aug 12 Trump's Ballroom Fight Could Make Courts Rethink 'National Security' Deference Appealing to national security is not a "get-out-of-law-free card," a federal court ruled last week.
Reason · Aug 10 D.C. Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Trump's Ballroom The Constitution assigns control of federal property to Congress, which never approved the president's demolition and replacement of the East Wing.
Reason · Aug 7 Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Dog toys, DoorDash, and unregistered foreign agents.
Reason · Aug 7 What Will The "Apolitical Proceduralist" Do With The East Wing Case? Will Justice Barrett really find standing based on an "aesthetic" injury?